Description: The Burroughs Family, Hale County, Alabama Silver Gelatin Photograph from the original negative taken in 1936, printed in 1978. Numbered 52 of 75 in ink lower left. Blindstamp for Walker Evans Estate lower right. Slight bending to the sheet, but pristine condition. The same limited edition printing of this photograph sold for $3,000+ premium at auction in 2023 (see my final image). Another is currently selling for $4,800 at a gallery on 1stdibs. Walker Evans began to photograph in the late 1920s, during a European trip. Upon his return to New York, he published his first images in 1930. During the Great Depression, Evans began to photograph for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), documenting the lives of workers and architecture in the southeastern United States. In 1936, he traveled with the writer James Agee to illustrate an article on tenant farm families for Fortune magazine; the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) came out of this collaboration. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men focused on three tenant cotton-farming families living in Hale County, Alabama, during the Depression. Agee invented the last name “Gudger” for the Burroughs family in the book. The Burroughses hosted Agee and Evans for nearly a month, and this photograph was made at George Burroughs’s request. Evan’s photograph of Allie Mae Burroughs is one of the iconic images of 1930s America. Image 7.5 x 9.5 inches Sheet 11 x 11 inches
Price: 2000 USD
Location: South Hadley, Massachusetts
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Shipping Cost: 20 USD
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Type: Photograph
Year of Production: 1936
Photographer: Walker Evans
Image Color: Black & White
Production Technique: Gelatin-Silver Print
Subject: Family
